tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Nov 21 05:38:00 2000
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negating a comparative
- From: "De'vID" <[email protected]>
- Subject: negating a comparative
- Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 08:37:55 -0500
- Importance: Normal
How do I negate a comparative, i.e. how do I say, "It's *not* more
this and that" or "It's *not* the most something of all"?
I'm trying to render the following into Klingon:
A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points,
but it is by no means the most interesting.
-- Dr. Who
I've got:
{cha' Quvmey rarmeH, chaq tlhegh SIHlu'pu'be'bogh tIqHa' law'
Hoch tIqHa' puS. 'ach tlhegh SIHlu'pu'be'bogh *Dajbe' law'
Hoch *Dajbe' puS.}
But this isn't quite right... It says that an unbended line
is "more not interesting" than everything else. But what I want
to say is that it's "not more interesting" than everything
else. I'm quite stuck and am wondering if I should recast
as, say, {'ach latlh Daj law' tlhegh SIHlu'pu'be'bogh Daj
puS}.
I'm also open to suggestions for "straight line". I couldn't
find a simple word for "straight" so I went for "which has not
been bent", which is admittedly clunky.
--
De'vID
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